Perhaps I really should begin to make regularlists of books not only read but with bits of their contents. Perhaps then I would not spend so much time searching for books I would like to reread. After consulting my list and comparing the titles with fdb I'm still at a loss and need help finding a book. Here's what I remember:
The hero was rather young at the time of the Civil War, had lost his family and became a member of a band of outlaws (former soldiers?). There was an incident (at a railroad station?) that lay heavily on his conscience. He tried to find a better life where the heroine comes in. I think she lived in a town, maybe had a small business and there was a boy (teenager) who lived with her.
But his past caught up with the hero. I'm not sure but I think his old companions wanted to rob a bank butt insted of joining them he helps to catch them but gets hurt in the progress.
He wants to make a clean plate and submits himself to a trial because of the crimes he was a part of earlier during or short after the war. He thought that only in so doing he had the right to marry the heroine. I remembe that the local sheriff played a major role and did support him during the trial.
I know that isn't much to go on but...You all are so good at finding books, so perhaps I'm lucky again.

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I confess, I'm bumping my question. I was searching the web for hours to again find this book , but got no result. So, my only hope is that anybody remembers reading this western - and the author or title.

This sounds like a Rosanne Bittner book I read quite a few years ago, but the title escapes me. You might want to try looking at her books._________________KristieJ.blogspot.ca
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As it's more than a year since I bumped my question I dare to do it again.
There are so many hours I've tried to find this story of a bad guy turned honorable.
I've searched all the harlequin westerns of the last and not so last years. I've tried Jodi Thomas, Patricia Potter, Bobbi Smith, Cheryl St.John, Maggie Osborne, Pamela Morsi, Linda Lael Miller, Maureen McKade, Patricia Gaffney and many others - but to no avail.
Perhaps as a sidenote: As I remember there weren't many or any sex scenes in the book but it wasn't an inspirational either.
Has nobody read this book and does remember more about it? I would be so grateful as the search truly makes me go crazy!

As 11 months have passed since my last try to find this book I'm bumping my question.
I'm recently reread the Gunslinger by Lorraine Heath which has similar motives. But that's not the title I'm searching for.
And as hope never dies....